Osprey, don't know if you noticed or not, but you replied to a thread from 2010. Which is not a bad thing. I had not read that thread and it was interesting, so thanks for bringing it back up.
I also noticed you registered in 2012 but this is post number one. Let me welcome you to posting. And thanks for the bullhead links. Wife and I have eaten some (I think ours are yellow bullheads, but I am not absolutely sure) this year and we liked them just fine. Maybe 90% as well as CC, but still very good.
I feed bullheads, by the way, but not on purpose. They are in my old pond. My bullheads have no problem taking to pellets. The small ones I catch in a minnow trap baited with feed looks like their little bellies are going to explode they have eaten so much.
Yea, I did notice it was an older post, but I thought it was a good topic. I've noticed a lot of people ask the same questions over and over. When there are a lot of previous placed post that could answer their questions. I also knew it would pop up on the ACTIVE TOPICS at the top of the forum introduction page.
I appreciate the warm welcome, and thank you for responding. I hear a lot of folks on here complaining about Bullheads and I really don't know why?? Some of the biggest Bass, Crappie, and Catfish I have ever seen have come from small lakes and ponds with good populations of Bullheads. Just me, but if you have to many bullheads? You don't have nearly enough predators like the afore mentioned. I witness every spring the gamefish feeding heavily on the slow swimming offspring. The Bullheads that do wind up surviving the onslaught from the ponds I fish usually wind up getting up to the 1-3 pound size, and in my opinion make great sport on light tackle.
You hear every kind of opinion about the eating qualities of this family of Catfish. You hear things like "they're only good for bait","they taste like mud & are terrible", to "there is no tastier catfish than Bullhead's!" I tend to agree with the latter. Let me clarify by saying just about any type of fish can be excellent, or terrible tablefare depending on the time of year, water quality, what they have been feeding on,the relative health of each fish overall, how they are prepared before cooking, and Last, but not least how they are cooked.
